Select Recent Research:
Morality in Public Administration
Jaime L. Kucinskas. The Loyalty Trap. 2025. Columbia University Press. *2026 Best Book Award, Public and Nonprofit Management Section, Academy of Management
Jaime Kucinskas. 2023. “Moral Decision-Making Processes in their Organizational, Institutional, and Historical Contexts” Handbook of The Sociology of Morality, Volume 2 (eds. Aliza Luft, Steve Hitlin and Shai Dromi)
Spirituality, Movements, and Social Change
Braunstein, Ruth, Jaime Kucinskas, Brian Steensland, Daniel Winchester. “Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion” American Sociological Review
Evan Stewart, Timothy D. Dacey, and Jaime Kucinskas. 2024. “Lagged Cultural Identities and the Underestimated Civic Significance of Spirituality” Book chapter for The Shape of Spirituality, edited volume by Galen Watts and Dick Houtman, New York: Columbia University Press, 177-208.
Jaime Kucinskas and Evan Stewart. 2022. “Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship Between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement” American Sociological Review
Jaime Kucinskas. 2020. “Racial and Class Gaps in Buddhist-Inspired Organizing.” Religion is Raced. Eds. Penny Edgell and Grace Yukich. New York University Press.
Jaime Kucinskas. 2019. The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing Change from the Inside Out. Oxford University Press
* Honorable mention, ASA Sociology of Religion Section 2019 Distinguished Book Award, and includes chapter awarded the 2013 Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Sociology of Religion Section
Kateri Boucher (student) and Jaime Kucinskas. 2016. “‘Too Smart to be Religious?’ Discreet Seeking Amidst Religious Stigma at a Secular Elite College” (Social Inclusion)
Jaime Kucinskas. 2014. “The Unobtrusive Tactics of Religious Movements” Sociology of Religion